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Liverpool vs. Man City: Key Stats Ahead of Premier League Match

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the Champions League, group G match between FC Copenhagen and Manchester City, at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Oct.11, 2022. (AP)
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the Champions League, group G match between FC Copenhagen and Manchester City, at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Oct.11, 2022. (AP)
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Liverpool vs. Man City: Key Stats Ahead of Premier League Match

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the Champions League, group G match between FC Copenhagen and Manchester City, at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Oct.11, 2022. (AP)
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the Champions League, group G match between FC Copenhagen and Manchester City, at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Oct.11, 2022. (AP)

The following are key statistics ahead of Sunday's Premier League game between Liverpool and Manchester City at Anfield, provided by Nielsen Gracenote.

Champions City are second in the table with 23 points, a point behind Arsenal, while Liverpool are 10th with 10 points.

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* City have won four league titles since Pep Guardiola took over in 2016 while Liverpool have won only one despite losing fewer games in that period.

* Guardiola's City (2.36) and Juergen Klopp's Liverpool (2.19) are the only two Premier League teams to average at least two points per game since the start of the 2016-17 season. The next best club is Chelsea (1.94).

* City have scored 80 more goals and conceded 24 fewer than Liverpool since Guardiola took charge at the club.

* The average age of Liverpool's starting lineup is over 28 years old -- the oldest since Klopp took charge. The average age was just over 25 in the 2015-16 season.

* Liverpool have 12 points fewer in eight games than they took in comparable fixtures last season while City have three points more in nine games.

* Liverpool have conceded the first goal in six of their eight matches this season, winning only one and drawing three of those. Last season they won four and drew two after conceding the first goal in the last six matches they went behind.

* Guardiola's City have taken only five points out of a possible 18 at Anfield but have not lost there since Liverpool won the league in 2019-20 (W1 D1).

* Liverpool have lost four times to Guardiola's City in the Premier League -- more than against any other team.

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Britain is Back in America’s Cup Final for the First Time in 60 years

INEOS Britannia, left, and Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli sailing teams compete during the Louis Vuitton Cup Final Day 7 at the Barcelona's coast, Spain, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
INEOS Britannia, left, and Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli sailing teams compete during the Louis Vuitton Cup Final Day 7 at the Barcelona's coast, Spain, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
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Britain is Back in America’s Cup Final for the First Time in 60 years

INEOS Britannia, left, and Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli sailing teams compete during the Louis Vuitton Cup Final Day 7 at the Barcelona's coast, Spain, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
INEOS Britannia, left, and Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli sailing teams compete during the Louis Vuitton Cup Final Day 7 at the Barcelona's coast, Spain, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

A British yacht is back in the America’s Cup finals for the first time since 1964 after INEOS Britannia finished off Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli on Friday.

Britannia scored the winning point for a 7-4 series victory after a fast and flawless race that it finished 17 seconds ahead of Luna Rossa. Britannia claimed the Louis Vuitton Cup for being the best of five challengers.

The boat skippered by Olympic great Ben Ainslie will next face defender Team Emirates New Zealand in a first-to-seven wins series for the America’s Cup starting on Oct. 12.

Despite holding the most Olympic medals in sailing and having a rich maritime tradition, Britain has never won the biggest prize in the sport — a wait that runs back 173 years, according to The AP.

“One more to go boys!” Ainslie told his sailors, who shouted with joy as they crossed the finish line.

Britain has been chasing the America’s Cup ever since the schooner America won the race’s very first edition back in 1851 when it bested Royal Yacht Squadron in a loop around the Isle of Wight, with Queen Victoria herself in attendance. This is the 23rd time it has challenged for the Auld Mug, more than any other nation.

Now, it is the closest it has come to finally winning the cup in sixty years.

It will face a New Zealand team that has won the past two editions in 2017 and 2021. As defending champion in this truly winner-takes-all competition, the Kiwis got to choose the rules and the location of the regattas, so in theory they should have an edge that the Brits must overcome.

The British will have on their side the real racing experience over recent weeks. They have gone from outside threat to the fastest ship of the challenger’s fleet. Before racing started, New Zealand leader Grant Dalton said that he put both Luna Rossa and American Magic a notch above Britannia, but warned that the Brits could pull off a surprise.

That they did, delivering a nearly flawless Louis Vuitton finals series, while Luna Rossa’s chances were hurt by structural problems to their silver-hulled yacht.

The Britannia team has the financial backing of billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, who also bought into storied soccer club Manchester United this year. It has also benefitted from a partnership with the Mercedes Formula One team.

The British win over the Italians avenged a 7-1 loss to Luna Rossa in the same stage of the 2021 event in Auckland.

Only four nations have ever won the cup. After the 30 titles by American boats, New Zealand has won it three times, Switzerland twice and Australia once.